A Call to Character is a unique family reader that brings together a liberal assortment of voices from novels, short stories, plays and poetry -- both the well loved and the obscure -- to enrich and enliven a child's imagination. The unusual breadth of readings illustrates lives defined by hign standards of personal character, such as courage, honesty, fairness, responsibility, compassion, empathy, generosity and love.
A Call to Character is a unique family reader that brings together a liberal assortment of voices from novels, short stories, plays and poetr...
Herbert Kohl, one of America's most influential and provocative educators, believes that the only way to persist and to grow as a teacher is to commit oneself to the development of the child rather than to the regimented training of the pupil. His book is a lively, personal testament of one teacher's efforts to cultivate the natural vitality of the learning process; it is also a wondefully concrete and practical guide full of stories of individual students and how they were helped to grow through learning.
Herbert Kohl, one of America's most influential and provocative educators, believes that the only way to persist and to grow as a teacher is to com...
"I Won't Learn From You," Herb Kohl's now-classic essay on "not learning," or refusing to learn, is available for the first time in an affordable paperback edition along with four other landmark essays. Drawing on an idea of Martin Luther King Jr.'s, Kohl argues for "creative maladjustment" in the classroom and anywhere else that students' intelligence, dignity, or integrity are compromised by a teacher, an institution, or a larger social mindset. This volume also includes "The Tattooed Man," Kohl's autobiographical essay about "hopemongering," which Kohl finds essential for all...
"I Won't Learn From You," Herb Kohl's now-classic essay on "not learning," or refusing to learn, is available for the first time in an affordab...
"The Discipline of Hope" chronicles veteran educator Herb Kohl s love affair with teaching since his first encounter forty years ago, chronicled in his now-classic "36 Children." Beginning with his years in New York public schools and continuing throughout his four decades of working with students from kindergarten through college across the country, Kohl has been an ardent advocate of the notion that every student can learn and every teacher must find creative ways to facilitate that learning. In "The Discipline of Hope "he distills the major lessons of an attentive lifetime in the...
"The Discipline of Hope" chronicles veteran educator Herb Kohl s love affair with teaching since his first encounter forty years ago, chronicled in...
Published in hardcover in the fall of 2005 shortly before Rosa Parks died, She Would Not Be Moved is a timely and important exploration of how the story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott has been distorted when taught in schools. Hailed by the New York Times Book Review when it was first published as having "the transcendent power that allows us to see . . . alternate ways of viewing our history and understanding what is going on in our classrooms," this expanded version of Kohl s original groundbreaking discussion "deftly catalogs problems with the prevailing...
Published in hardcover in the fall of 2005 shortly before Rosa Parks died, She Would Not Be Moved is a timely and important exploration of how ...
In provocative and entertaining essays that] will appeal to reflective readers, parents, and educators (Library Journal), one of the country s foremost education writers looks at the stories we tell our children. Available now in a revised edition, including a new essay on the importance of stoop-sitting and storytelling, Should We Burn Babar? challenges some of the chestnuts of children s literature. Highlighting instances of racism, sexism, and condescension that detract from the tales being told, Kohl provides strategies for detecting bias in stories written for young...
In provocative and entertaining essays that] will appeal to reflective readers, parents, and educators (Library Journal), one of the countr...
With the passion and wisdom that have made him one of our leading educators, Herbert Kohl has written a wonderful book about how he has done theater with young people and how you can too. He tells how to explore improve, develop significant themes out of improve, use dialogue and monologue as starting points for students to write their own plays, develop full performance, and how to adapt plays and stories for performance. He also includes generous excerpts from plays and stories that are particularly good examples.
With the passion and wisdom that have made him one of our leading educators, Herbert Kohl has written a wonderful book about how he has done theater w...
